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Juan Luis (Ludovicus) Vives, 1492-1540. Spanish humanist philosopher and classicist who moved to France to escape the Inquisition. For a time, he served as a tutor for the daughter of Henry VIII of England, but he was imprisoned and expelled for his opposition to the king's divorce.

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Biography.com: Vives, Juan Luis Paragraph on the life of this Renaissance scholar. search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=11599

Catholic Encyclopedia: Juan Luis Vives Article on his life and works, by Paul Lejay. www.newadvent.org/cathen/15492a.htm

Juan Luis Vives Some biographical information and a one-paragraph summary of Vives' Instruction of a Christian Woman. wilkes.edu/~writing/juan.html

The Instruction of a Christian Woman Excerpt from Vives' principal work on female education, from a 1529 translation into the English of the period. www.valpo.edu/english/emtexts/vives1.html

Spain: Juan Luis Vives Short article on this thinker and comrade of Erasmus. wais.stanford.edu/Spain/spain_juanluisvives53103.html